John Adam Belushi was a comedian, actor, and musician, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC-TV comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live in the early 1970’s and for his roles in the films National Lampoon’s Animal House(1978) and The Blues Brother(1980). He died of a drug overdose on March 5, 1982 at the age of 33. John was the older brother of Jim Belushi.